While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” John Ashcroft, attorney general, announces he has obtained an indictment from a Federal Grand Jury against Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, of Pakistan, for the kidnapping and lynching (execution without due process) of Daniel Pearl, a field journalist with the Wall Street Journal.  This is not an issue for the Federal courts, as the crime occurred in Pakistan, which properly has jurisdiction.

       NOTE: As this crime occurred in Pakistan, and Pakistan arrested Sheikh within its borders, it has the legitimate authority to try and punish this crime.  Although there can be little doubt that Sheikh would prefer to be tried, convicted and serve his sentence in the U.s.

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       In testimony before the house armed services committee, United states Army General William F. Kernan, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, complains that his troops are “tired.”  Kernan requests that the U.s. Armed Forces be increased 3.7% to an authorized strength of 1,438,400.  “There’s … a limitation as to how broadly we can spread the forces we have today.”

       NOTE: with a quarter million troops unlawfully stationed in Bosnia, Cuba, Germany, Greenland, Haiti, Italy, Japan, Okinawa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Spain, Turkey and the United Kingdom, to list a few—at a cost of over 150 billion “dollars” per year—no discussion is made of redeploying any of them to Afghanistan or the U.s.

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       In a meeting with the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune, governor Joseph “Grayout” Davis, of the republic of california, defends the course of action that he has taken, which has locked state residents into paying the highest electricity bills in the nation for the next two decades:

       This is like a war.  This is worse than being in Vietnam. This is a full-out war against me. … I kept the lights on.  And this sounds a little presumptuous, but I think I should get a round of applause.  I don’t get squat. … If I didn’t panic, you wouldn’t be able to put out your paper.  I saved this f______’ paper.  I kept the lights on in this state.  Do you understand that?  I kept the lights on.

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       The supreme court of the confederate state of arkansas hands down Spears v. Mills: an unpolled jury may not reconvene once it is dismissed by the trial judge to determine whether or not the verdict it reached was in fact the one that was recorded.

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        Note the LAT says “RETHOUGHT” which is NOT the issue in the entry; which is the question of the verdict of the jury being equal to the recorded verdict, which deserves to be reconciled if not equal.  Of course juries may not reconvene to try cases on their own, they have tried the case, properly, except for the question of two verdicts, the one delivered in open court, and the one recorded that may differ. —- JL